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Spell Bee Word: Buffalo


What does buffalo mean?

Word: Buffalo

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Buffalo means a big, strong animal like a cow, with curved horns. In India, many farm families keep buffaloes.

How do you spell buffalo?

Syllables: buf - fa - lo

Tricky part: The f sound in the middle is written with two f's, but children often write only one.

Watch out for: bufalo, buphalo

Memory tip: Picture the buffalo's two curved horns standing up side by side: they are the two f's.

Buffalo in a sentence

Example 1: The buffalo rested in the muddy pond.

Example 2: Our neighbour has three buffaloes.

Example 3: A buffalo has big curved horns.

Fun Fact

Water buffaloes love to lie in mud and water. It keeps them cool on hot days and keeps flies off their skin.

Practise the CREST Way

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

laobfuf

a) bufflao
b) buffola
c) buffalo
d) buffaol

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c) buffalo. Sound out each choice: only one gives the big farm animal that likes to lie in mud.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) leopard
b) buffelo
c) elephant
d) tortoise

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b) buffelo. The middle sound of this animal's name is written with an a.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

buffallo

a) l
b) a
c) f
d) o

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a) l. Take away one l and the animal's name is right.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

buffal_

a) a
b) o
c) u
d) e

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b) o. The name ends with the same letter as hello.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Many village families in India keep a buffalo for its ____.

a) eggs
b) feathers
c) milk
d) wool

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c) milk

2. A baby buffalo is called a ____.

a) piglet
b) calf
c) cub
d) foal

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b) calf

Associated Words

More Class 2 Summer Spell Bee words starting with bu: burger, bulldozer, bungalow, bulky, buy, burst

More words from this list

cushion, friend, hornbill, many, playful, sharpener, then, wristwatch

Next steps

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